And if we dream - Draco Malfoy/ OC

Chapter 22- Burning.

Summary: Like some magnetic force, like some unbreakable bond she was drawn back to him again and again. And now, staying away was an inconceivable notion. "Always." she murmured, one hand finding his, the other tangling into his platinum hair, "Always."

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Hey Poppets, thanks for such an enthusiastic response, it feels good to be updating so regularly(ish).

Thanks again Saskia, sorry about your vid =PP

And- Joely dear- I have not forgotten, I cannot wait to get to that scene, I got a lot of Avery/Draco interaction set for after too! Thanks for your great review!

I know you guys want more A/D interaction but its getting there, bear with me! it's a slow burner they hated each other for years! Aha! Much love poppets!

Also another note- please remember I'm rewriting!

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Fire. Loud crackling, burning fire surrounding the burrow and everybody inside.

Before Avery knows what is happening, they are appearing, the death eaters, Greyback and Bellatrix and other faceless, grinning and smug.

"Harry no!" Arthur calls as the boy runs from the house and straight towards the death eater who had murdered his only living family.

"Harry!" Avery called as Remus followed closely behind only to be caught unable to follow as the fire closed around. Harry separated from the group. Avery pulled her wand from her sleeve, and noticed Ron follow suit.

"Ginny!" Molly Weasley cried as the girl found a small opening and followed blindly after Harry clad in only her dressing gown and probably wandless.

"Idiot!" Ron cried leaping forward.

"Don't you dare." Molly cried grabbing her other child menacingly.

Avery stood helpless, she had no idea what to do next, thoroughly trapped it seemed, wand raised but pointless, she didn't know any spells that could counteract the fire around them.

"Ave! Ron!" A voice whispered, "Come here!"

Avery turned towards the voice and noticed the twins, beckoning them over excitedly.

"What?" Ron hissed, "There's no time, Harry and Ginny are out there!"

"Exactly. We saw Greyback run this way." Fred grinned, pointing to an area in the burning circle that seemed to waver in heat and brightness every now and then obviously caused by the wolf himself.

"Brilliant." Ron said, running forward immediately Avery and the twins hot on his heels.

"Lets get Greyback!"

The heat felt blisteringly hot against Averys bare arms for the sparse moments she met the fire. "Where is he?" Ron asked, wincing as Bellatrix's voice rose over the chaos, taunting Harry, "I killed Sirius Black!"

"Split up!" Avery cried, "Go in a circle and meet in the middle, we'll trap him!"

The twins ran to the right leaving Ron and Avery the left. She didn't know for how far they ran or how long, but it seemed they were endlessly moving.

"Ave stop!" Ron hissed, grabbing roughly at her arm, "Listen?"

Avery held her heaving breath, listening intently, until her ears picked up on Harrys voice crying out a spell. Followed by a growling kind of laugh close by. She raised her wand higher, spell ready on her lips as Greyback appeared before them , ugly and intimidating, a dark leer plastered over his face. "Stu-" Avery began only to find herself falling the ground as Greyback's smoke form flew towards them.

"Avery!" They heard his lewd voice whisper, "Weasley."

Avery swallowed, whipping to the left, the right, behind, his voice seemed to be coming from every angle. From all around.

"Expelliarmus!" Ron cried loudly aiming in a random direction.

"Ron! Don't!" Avery cried, spotting a movement to the left, "He's this way!" she cried, sprinting through the overgrown crops as fast as she could. It was a while before she noticed Ron was no longer before her.

She stood still, listening, looking out for any sign that someone was near, friend or foe, she fought the urge to call out.

Avery had never fared well on her own, and this situation broke the boundaries of dangerous and possibly fatal. She needed help.

She stepped backwards quietly wondering if she could trace her steps back to where she had left Ron, maybe he had followed her.

A loud crack sounded in front of her and she stilled again, wand wavering. "Very pretty." Greyback's voice sounded, "Like your mother."

"Shut up!" she hissed, straightening, "Come out!"

"Expelliarmus." Came the lazy response, and Avery found herself wandless. She gasped and ran, forward she thought, though she found herself completely turned around, unable to see over the crops in order to find the fire and subsequently the way back to help.

"Ron!" Avery cried, "Harry!" Wandless and tired, clad in denim jeans and a shirt she was hardly in any position to fight a Hufflepuff let alone a death eater or a werewolf to boot.

"Avery?" She heard Rons voice call from the left.

"Ron," she heaved a sigh of relief, "I lost my wand- where-"

A hand clasped onto Avery's hair and pulled her head back, hard, "Hello Avery. Your mother sends her wishes."

"Get off me!" Avery cried, pulling away from the shrieking laugh of Bellatrix Lestrange, "Get off."

"Such lovely hair, like your mother, you can always tell a death eater from their hair."

Avery lashed out, scratching her nails down the back of the hand that remained in her hair though it seemed to have no effect on the woman who stepped back angrily.

Avery felt herself freed and stumbled away, eyes wide as she took in the frankly terrifying dishevelled appearance of Sirius Black's, lovely Sirius' murderer.

Avery shrieked as the woman raised her wand and opened her mouth to speak a no doubt horrid curse, "Avery? Harry!" Remus Lupin's voice sounded close by.

"Here!" Avery screamed, as Bellatrix sneered and disappeared into the crops. Avery took the change and sprinted towards the voices, growing louder. She kept moving until she collided with a tall form. "Fred!" She sighed in relief, hugging the twin.

"George." He laughed.

"I lost Ron." Avery stated as they moved forward.

"He's fine, I've seen him."

"Harry!" Remus cried, as they sped towards said boy in a clearing with Ginny and Arthur Weasley. Avery found herself enclosed in the circle next to Ginny who looked wet and vulnerable. The wait was tense, long and neither side seemed willing to make the first move. Eventually, the death eaters dispersed heading towards the burrow.

"Molly." Arthur whispered just as the Weasley home erupted into flames, spells, no doubt from the enemy.

"Merlin, No!" Ginny cried launching herself forward, running full pelt in her gown towards the burning burrow.

Arthur followed close behind.

"Come on." Harry cried, grabbing at Avery's sleeve and sprinting forward.

They reached the burrow in no time to find everyone safe and sound bar a few scratches here and there.

The Weasleys held tight to each other as they watched their house and belongings burn. Avery felt a comforting hand on her shoulder, possibly from Remus and felt a tear slide down her cheek.

The war had just gotten real. And they were not prepared.

A/N- I have a new fic out! it's a walking dead Daryl/OC fic Check it out if you're a fan! Lots of love! X

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